First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

A project to transcribe and make available copies of records relating to individuals who lived at the Cape (Cabo da Boa Esperança / de Caep de Goede Hoop / Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop) during the first decades of the settlement after 1652

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The material on this website is subject to copyright.Facts (names, dates, and places) are not copyright. You are free to transcribe them into your data. But I have created the narratives, sentences, and citations; they are copyright and may not be used without my express written permission. You may not add them to your tree on Ancestry, nor in the data or profile sections on Geni, nor anywhere else, unless you have obtained my written permission. Many of the images are also copyright. You may not copy them without the consent of the copyright holders. You must use the correct attribution and citation, viz.: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/

Last Edited

02/01/2014

(Witness) Note

Ragoena vanMacassar was a witness I have elected to add as a surname the toponym "Van Macassar" to the family and retinue of Sheik Yusuf in order that they are grouped together in the project and also identified as a specific group, and because 'van Macassar' was commonly used during that period. The spelling is derived from his name, i.e. al-Maqassari. However, this does not imply they all came from Makassar - in fact some would have come from Banten - nor that they were known as "Van Macassar". with Muhammad Yusuf al-Maqassari.